Wednesday 02MAY07 #2

Some more shots of the convoy training and getting ready to do the land navigation course. It was 93 F today so it got very hot today.

Wednesday 02MAY07

Getting ready for the daily training. It all starts on the grinder and then goes from there to the different ranges or classrooms for our instructions. When on the ranges we have hands on experiences. We have been hit with lots of information in the little time we have been here. They are getting ready to extend this training into a 3 week course instead of the 2 week. Everytime you get called up you have to go through this training center even if you have had the training before. The reason for that is the training is changed as things change over seas.

Tuesday 01MAY07 #2

Nice hot day of training, but we all made it through ok. I am ready to secure the area.

Tuesday, 01MAY07

Today we went marching with a tatical march to our training site. There we learned several things about culture, IED's, convoys and then urban assault. The top photo is still from Monday's training.

Monday 30APR07

Today we had some map reading training, radio operations training, and hand to hand combat maneuvering. Everything was at a basic form to give us a general idea of what to do if we come across that type of situation where it would be needed.

Tuesday 01MAY07

Here are a few scenes from Monday's training. Most of them were inbetween training sessions or during our 10 minute break times.

Just shortly before we came into Columbia, SC

I am not sure which race track this is, but it has to be one of the big ones used for NASCAR type racing. Hope you liked some of the photos from my flight from San Diego that I took.